Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Pair of tea caddies (part of a set)” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pair of tea caddies (part of a set)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–70

One of a Pair of Tea Caddies
Simon Pantin I, British, ca. 1680 – 1728 · 1716

Pair of tea caddies and a sugar box in a case
Paul de Lamerie · 1738/39

Pair of Tea or Sugar Caddies
William Cripps, English, 1715 – 1766 · 1752

Tea caddy (part of a set)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–70

Hexagonal Balustrade Tea Caddy
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1725–1740

Tea caddy (part of a set)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–70

Tea Caddy
Artist not stated in the record · 1807

Tea caddy with cover with armorial decoration (part of a service)
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–60

House Model
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

Tea caddy with cover with armorial decoration (part of a service)
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–60

Tea Caddy
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1770

Tea caddy with spoon (one of a set of three)
John Swift · 1762–63

George III silver tea caddy
Artist not stated in the record · 1805

Tea caddy with spoon (one of a set of three)
John Swift · 1762–63

Tea caddy and cover
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Tea caddy with spoon (one of a set of three)
John Swift · 1762–63

Tea Caddy with Chinoiserie Vignettes
Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · ca. 1770

Panel with Byzantine Ivory Carving of the Crucifixion
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century (ivory); late 11th century (setting)

Lid and Two-Part Spout of Hot Water Kettle
Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · ca. 1845

Small settee (Marquise) (part of a set)
Georges Jacob · ca. 1785

Creamer
Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · 1830–1832

Tea Caddy
Simeon Soumaine · ca. 1720

Teapot
Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · 1830–1846
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 825 matched · 24 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3858022 matched · 40 examined · 28 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 13:51 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.